The pattern of BTCD reminds me exactly of what XC did, comes out of nowhere, gains some interest, dev is discovered to be highly respected and competent, and it maintains its price even through the constant mining and dumping, and then POS hits and BOOM shoots up to a $15-20 million market cap in just days. Granted it all came tumbling down but this was mostly due to the fud from the Dark camp. People bought XC not on what features it had at the time but just based off what they knew it COULD be with Dan Metcalfe on board. This could do the same thing, especially now with the JLH777hodl asset thrown into the mix too.
As long as the community can help me with the testing, then it will speed up completion of all the cool features. So, we an all make BTCD a success, but it will take a lot of work. I am willing and able to put in the work, hopefully there will be half a dozen or so here who can also put the hard work of testing in.
I cant stress how important good testers are. They can make all the difference in the world. Not just finding bugs, but making improvement suggestions.
So, I dont want the everybody stands around waiting (and complaining) about the dev not being finished with everything yet. I got sidetracked with the whole poloniex JLH thing, it would be #33 on coinmarketcap now! So, kind of on an after allnighter second wind now.
Now there will be lots of FUD, but they can just look at
https://github.com/jl777I wrote 20,000+ lines of new C code since March, plus MGW is in the final stages of testing and that is the most secure crypto gateway ever made as it has three independent server operators and all balances are reconciled publicly every block. So there is 100% assurance that there is 100% backing for all deposits.
I have a team over in NXT land that helps out, but what I am working on is quite extensive and I look forward to getting a strong testing team here. I am still a long weekend away from alpha release, especially with some of the incompatibilities I've run into. But, if you want to get a head start, you can install NXT from nxt.org so at least you are familiar with that end of things. I will make it so that BTCD will inherit all the NXT features, probably a good idea to customize the HTML GUI and make it look all BTCD. So if there are any HTML5 guys here, we need you!
Imagine installing BTCD and getting all of the NXT features and cryptonote AND all of my proprietary services like InstantDEX and Privatebet. Also, everybody that will run a node will get revenue sharing. Not from mining revenues, but from InstantDEX trading commissions and Privatebet fees. So there is no cap to what can be earned. If there are strong marketing types, it would be cool to start planning how best to get lots of customers.
Anyway, as you can see I am not just a coder, but more a generalist. So I can always use help of specialists in any field.
My goal is to get BTCD to top 10 on coinmarketcap, actually I want it to go above DOGE.
James
